Word: moratoria
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...that it read itself out of the anti-war movement. The Campus Worker-Student Alliance line-which PL pushed hard and continuously within SDS-sapped the organization of so much energy that it did no work on the issue of the war during the period of the Moratoria. SDS thus rendered itself powerless by the time Cambodia rolled around last May. At a time when tens of thousands of students focused on the war as a major national issue, SDS was engaged in its most intensive period of self-proletarianization...
...this isolation from the antiwar demonstrations which made SDS's shrill condemnation of the Moratoria particularly inappropriate and offensive. If SDS had worked toward an anti-war strategy and lobbied within the Moratoria for radical speakers and viewpoints, then the criticisms would have been more understandable. Instead, SDS held its own antiwar demonstrations in advance of the October Moratorium, with trade unionism as the principal motif ("an American victory in Vietnam will be a terrific defeat for the U. S. worker...
...anywhere but on their own campuses. This has to do more than anything else with the seriousness of the organizing required to eliminate an evil that reaches to the root of the American power structure. Students were able to canvass with some success around anti-war referenda and moratoria, but those movements were innocuous and patently unsuccessful in stopping the Vietnam conflict. In their opposition to the war in Indochina, students must intensify the antigovernment, anti-administration drives on their own campuses to end war recruitment and research-and if necessary, close their campuses down until these abuses...
...concerning ROTC.....; establishment of the Afro-American Studies Department with a meaningful concentration program...; refrain[ing] from evicting any tenants for expansion plans until an advisory committee has made full investigation ... of housing difficulties [from the resolutions of the Executive Board, April 16]." This fall, we too supported the Moratoria. Last March, however, when Hillel organized a coalition for Biafran relief work consisting of Afro, the Christian Fellowship, Hillel, PBH, the YD's, and the YPSL, we invited SDS to send a representative, but for all of SDS's concern for human life, the co-chairman could not find...
...Kennedy refuses to believe that the U.S. can afford another uninspected moratorium; he says that moratoria are too dangerous, and that scientists simply cannot be expected constantly to prepare tests that may never take place. His tone inclines one to believe...